Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz tells the story of her hardships as a child growing up in Oklahoma.
Contents
The great good luck of the found horseshoe -- Red diaper baby? -- Dust Bowl baby -- Prairie red wing -- Patrimony -- Once master of the house -- Fields of clover -- Burning treasure -- Becoming a girl -- Plagues -- She-lion -- Trying to be a typical teenager -- Higher education -- Diamond in the rought -- California litany.